Human Again... The End?

“Let me help you.” The girl bent over and helped me stand. I stared at her. I could smell her scent and hear her heart, but my thirst was gone. “You’re free now.”

“Not really.” I said slowly.

“Yes, you are. You’re human again.”

“What?”

“Look at your hands.”

I glanced down. My hands were pink and warm. “I can still smell you.”

“But your thirst is gone, right?”

I nodded.

“You remembered that drinking blood was forbidden by God and he has honored your obedience. Something unknown, because it was untested, is if a vampire who has never tasted blood, kills the one who made it they will return to their human state, but will retain the heightened senses and skills you acquired with your transition.”

“How do you know this?”

“The One who created life sent me to you. He always provides a way out. Blood is life to Him. Vampires are cursed because they drink blood; no curse has ever rested on you. The lessons your father taught you growing up never left you. You left them because you believed yourself abandoned and cursed by God. Return to Him. He wants you back. He has a path for you, use your gifts to save others who are just as you were.” She turned to leave.

“If I’m human again, how am I going to be able to save more? I’ll die soon won’t I?”

“Another residual gift; you will die, but your life span is greatly increased. Find the others like you; help them become free. Fight this.”

I considered her for a moment and something occurred to me, but before I could ask my question she smiled and said, “You can never be a vampire again and neither can you be killed by the bite of one. It’s like having the chicken pox. You get it once and that’s it, you’ll never get it again. In fact, your blood is poisonous to them. I’m done here.” She paused and smiled, “Thank you, for not leaving me.” She left.

I stood there underneath that stupid light bulb trying to wrap my head around just happened. I closed my eyes and drew in a deep breath. I felt and heard my heart beating. It was the best feeling in the world.

Ever have one of those times in your life when...

When all in the entire universe seems to just go ptfffffthp? As if it doesn't care that you are even remotely affected by the goings on. Yeah, me too. Geesh sometimes having emotions and common sense seem like such a burden. Especially when people don't seem to care that you hurt the way they do. I'm beginning to feel like a certain busy body in our neighborhood has nothing better to do than to spy on us in order to make our lives miserable. THEN the people I work with are, well, I guess your typical coworkers. I'm pretty sure I've grated on them the way they grate on me. However, I really honestly try to not hold a grudge and just let it all pass by hoping and praying that the madness stop so that peace and calm can return. Grrr. ROAR!! I''m just so very upset by the whole thing. I guess my most major complaint is that I feel like the apartment complex that I am currently living in is being harassed on purpose because someone who lives across the street from it is sticking their nose in business that honestly does not concern them. I mean REALLY who calls the police about parking issues in an apartment complex that they aren't even living in? Then they stay outside under the guise of talking to their neighbors when they NEVER come outside of their house EVER, just to watch as the cops cruise in and respond to a complaint that they probably didn't want to respond to anyway. What a waste of their time and taxpayer money! I don't even think that they handed out a single ticket. Just asked people to move their cars. I don't normally rant like this, but I guess the moral is that if you have nothing better to do with your time than to spy on others then get a hobby. Let the people who actually are involved handle it. We don't need outside interference.

Human Again "D"

Sorry, it's been a minute since I last posted from this short story. IF you are following please please let me know. It means a lot to me that someone somewhere is enjoying my work. Thank you. 

Leigha

Human Again- "D"

Someone picked me up and threw me to the far side of the alley through the column the girl had been hiding behind. It didn’t even hurt. Next to me was another piece of wood I could have sworn wasn’t there before. I sniffed the air. I could smell Sway and the girl. She was still human. Only Riata stood between me and saving her. I stood up, laughing, and stepped down hard on the piece of wood splitting it in two. One half to flew into the air, I grabbed it.

“They were my prizes!” She screamed and flew at me. I ducked. She rebounded off the wall, flipped and landed in front of me. I looked behind her. There was a pile of smoldering ash where Eleazer had been and the wooden stake was still in the brick above another pile of ash that had been Jonas.

“Tsk, tsk. Sorry about that.” 

“Now, you’ll really pay. I don’t know how you got so fast or strong, but you will not leave this alley. You’ll turn to ash like them and I’ll scatter you on the wind.”

“Promise?”

She hissed and sprang towards me. I spun around and darted down the alley. I had to find the girl. I caught a whiff of Sway, his body temperature was higher, he was going to do it soon. I ran as fast as I could and my mind wandered back to the ally. I had never fought others of my kind before. I found them slow and clumsy. I couldn’t figure out why. If I had never fed and they did all the time, wouldn’t they be faster than me? I didn’t focus on that thought. I passed an abandoned warehouse and stopped. They were in there. Riata's footsteps were faint in my ears, but she was coming up behind me. I broke open a window and ducked inside.

I crept along the baseboards crouched on all fours, like a roach, scurrying softly as I followed their scents. It didn’t take long to find them. Sway was talking to her, promising her love and life and the like. Lies. He was trying to dazzle her and make her comfortable with what he was forcing on her.

They were in a dimly lit lower part of the warehouse; I peered over the banister at them. She was seated on a bed in front of what looked like an old walk in refrigerator where I could see four more beds. This must be where they lived. Riata wasn’t one for decorative homes like others of our kind. She had always been more about the hunt.

“P…p…please, I don’t want to be a vampire. I faint at the sight of blood.” The girl begged.

“Don’t worry, after tonight your desire will be for me and the hunt, you will no longer have that affliction.” He pushed her down on the bed. She tried to sit up, but he prevented her. She struggled against him as best she could. I heard footsteps behind me. Riata was close.

I jumped from my perch without making a sound and dodged the abandoned equipment and boxes that littered the floor. Sway heard me. I heard his feet hit the floor and the low growl in his throat. He didn’t scare me. “She’s mine!” he hissed “I’ve laid claim.”

 “You can’t collect when you’re dead.” I jumped on him sending him flying back into the edge of the opened refrigerator door. It crumpled from the force of our bodies. I jammed the stake through his chest. He screeched, convulsed and turned to ash. The girl screamed. I turned and saw Riata holding her tight to her body.

“You had NO RIGHT to take them from me.” She screeched.

“Why not? You took everything from me!”

Panic flashed across the girl’s face as Riata held her neck level to her mouth. “Please, please, help me.” Her eyes begged me.

Hey Moonlight

I came up with this song/poem the other night while driving home from my parents. I was singing it to my kids to keep them awake, believe it or not. Enjoy.

Hey moonlight

Hey star shine

Hey there lightning bug

Thank you for your glowing fun.

Lighting the night until day has begun

Chasing the darkness away

As we dream happy, full of play

Hey moonlight

Hey star shine

Hey there lightning bug

You are showing us your glowing,

Bursting, happy love.

The nighttime shimmers

As you glimmer around us and above.

Hey moonlight

Hey star shine

Hey there lightning bug

Happy memories

Heartfelt laughter

Caring hands

Held out to hold your glow

Hey moonlight

Hey star shine

Hey there lightning bug

Look at the skyline

The sunrays are finally

Rising to send you to your beds

Sleep in peace until you raise your heads.

Goodnight moonlight

Goodnight star shine

Goodnight lightning bug. 

Friday the 26th

Nothing to entirely special about today's post. I was going to post 'Part D' of Human Again, but I decided to actually write something instead. I want to write about something. However, my mind is not too entirely vexed about one issue or the other. I'm glad spring has sprung and that I'm loosing the weight from three pregnancies in a slow and steady fashion. Although that does get frustrating sometimes. You see when you are exercising to loose weight and you are female you have this biological issue... you are a woman. Women's bodies are designed to hold onto fat storage in order to better protect our reproductive systems and if we are preggers than the unborn fetus as well. So in fact loosing weight for a woman is a major issue. Ok this is great! I found something to blog about today! Yes! I knew If I rambled on for a bit I'd find something.

Why is this frustrating? Well the biggest contributor is that everywhere we look all of our advertising are airbrushed models that are probably about 10 pounds underweight (men this also happens to you) So we want to look like broom poles with speed bumps and this is not a healthy thing to aspire to. The second contributing factor is that all this fluffy adipose that hugs our curvy frames weighs less than the muscles that define it. So when exercise is introduced the muscles plump and the adipose gets used up. HOWEVER, the process, if being preformed properly, takes time. I'm three months into doing zumba on a regular basis, even with interval training between cardio and toning, my weight has only dropped between 5 to 10 pounds on any given day. At least it's dropped and hanging steady. However, my legs and arms and shoulders and face, even my feet feel stronger and look better. My clothes are fitting loosely and much more comfortably and I feel better day after day. However, my belly fat, what I'm REALLY trying to get rid of, has a death grip on my mid section and won't let go.

This is the single most frustrating thing. But perseverance is the word of the day/week/month/year. Because of exercising all of the work I've done on my mental and emotional health through the grace of God is beginning to really show. I had a physical imbalance because of the lack of activity in my life, but now I'm more balanced and in fact if I don't Zumba during the day than I have all kinds of extra energy at night making it hard to go to sleep. Sleeping is a key component in loosing weight. If your body recovers and rests the way it needs than it will function properly in helping shed all that nasty belly fat that has embedded itself around my midsection. If only it was like a zit. I could pop it and loose all the icky white stuff let it heal and then finish the product by keeping up with my Zumba fun stuff. (Sorry for the mental image, remember I'm typing as things come to me)

In truth I have every motivation to keep going. My kids have an improved mommy who is more willing to go outside and play/teach how to ride bikes/ etc etc... and my husband is enjoying getting 'the woman he married' back. Not that my physical appearance was hindering anything, because it wasn't, but it's such a motivator when he comes home and the first thing he does is check me out. It's great! Not to mention that he actually verbalized how proud of me he was for me sticking with it. Sometimes... sometimes it's the little things in this life that make the biggest differences.

So death gripped belly fat be hanged! Zumba and soon to be integrated into my routine Pilates, we shall be victorious! Now everyone go and eat some cucumbers or apples or celery or chocolate. Maybe some wine. Why? Because I enjoy these things without feeling like I can eat this or I can't eat that. I just crave the better for my body things in life now. I never even set out to diet.... just exercise. Why only exercise and not the diet? Well, in my experience diets are full of 'I can't' and exercise is about saying 'I can' Plus once your body begins to function more along the way it was designed to then it's going to want what is best for it. Things like fresh veggies and fruits, leaner meats and whole grains, not to mention dark chocolate and red wine, which are good for your heart just don't over do it. These foods are what I want now. Don't get me wrong bacon cheeseburgers are still amazing. So are french fries, I just don't want them as often as I used to.

Please ignore all the grammatical and possible spelling errors. This was a 'just type what I want' post. Hate me all you want. This is how my mind was working and this is what you are getting today, my rough draft. I have apple pie to bake for my grandfather who is visiting this weekend so I'm going to go do that now since I make everything, including the crust, from scratch. Ta ta for now. Thanks for possibly reading this and paying a small amount of attention to my barely there blog.

Don't be Silent

Leigha

Human Again Part 'C'

“So you’ve lived with this intense thirst for 170 years!” Her eyes widened and she threw her head back and laughed.

I heard a rustling behind me, then footsteps as the girl bolted from the column and tried to run down the alley. “Stop!” I chased after her and caught her before the others could get to her. Just as I reached her three males jumped down from the rooftops, landing softly just a few feet away. One was brand new; I could smell it on him. The other two were about as old as I was.

“Riata!” the one with waist length, black hair growled. “I’m done with pleasantries, can we get this over with!”

“NO!” I shielded the girl from the others.

“Oh Phineas my love.” She came up behind me. I turned to keep myself between the girl and her hunters. “We don’t want to eat her; although she does smell tempting. Are you a chocolate lover my dear?” she paused as if waiting for an answer, “Oh well, that’s ok we’ll talk later.” She looked at me and smiled, “You see Phineas, you broke my heart when you left. I created Sway to take your place.”

“You don’t have a heart to break Riata. I know that. They’ve been trained like dogs, I know you.”
            “You said you loved me!” There was a hiss in her throat. “You chose a human woman over me! Even after I revealed my true self to you, something I had never done nor ever have since.”

“You were exotic and very tempting, but I realized I didn’t want exotic, I didn’t want a cold eternity. I wanted mortality and everything that goes with it. You took that from me.”

“That’s neither here nor there.” She stroked the blond male’s hair lovingly. “Beautiful isn’t he? Only a year old. Sway doesn’t want to share me anymore, so he chose someone for him.” She paused and turned the blond male’s face towards hers and kissed it gently. “Well, I hope you’re happy with you’re life. However, if you don’t hand the girl over I’ll just have to take her from you… well, Sway will along with Eleazer and Jonas here.”

The girl behind me began to cry softly. Her body shook against mine. I quickly scanned the area for some kind of weapon to use when they attacked. There was a pile of wood somewhere I could smell it

Sway growled. “Are you going to hand her over or are you going to make me kill you?”

Death! Oh how I longed for it, but I couldn’t die yet, I had to save her. “Then kill me.”

“Really, this is quite simple.” Riata’s tone was even and cool. “She has been marked by Sway, she is technically his. Just look.” I growled at her and brought the girl carefully in front of me. She had really been crying and rain dripped from her hair. I pushed the long wet locks away from her neck and found the spot behind her left ear near the hairline where there were indeed fang marks. I bent over and sniffed them. My heart sank; it was Sway’s scent.

I pushed her back and shook her gently. “Have you ever seen this man before?” I motioned toward Sway, my eyes shone on him so she could see his face. She shook her head and blinked as she looked at him.

“Only in a dream, a nightmare.” Her voice cracked. I held her out from me with one hand; Sway came forward and took her.

“Thanks.” He said dryly.

I eyed him. The other males relaxed as soon as she was out of my hands. Sway walked her casually down the alley and out of sight, his arm around her waist. There wasn’t much time before he found the perfect place to turn her. My mind worked on a plan as I turned slowly to the others behind me. Riata was right next to me.

“Now, let me finish what I had started so very long ago.” She reached for my neck with her hand. I moved and jumped, clinging to the wall on the side of the alley near the dumpster as she turned to face me. “How did you get so fast?”

I hissed at her.

“I’ve never seen a vampire move that fast! Not even a council member.” She gasped.

“Then watch this!” I jumped down behind the dumpster, broke off a piece of the wood and sprang onto Eleazer. I jammed the stake through his chest. He let out a shriek. Jonas jumped on me from behind. The idiot made it easier for me. I pulled the stake from the convulsing Eleazer and threw Jonas off of me, then threw the stake after him pinning him to the brick wall. 

Human Again 'Part B'

Due to the somewhat increased activity on my barely noticeable little blog I'm going to post Part 'B' of Human Again. Hopefully all these hits are people actually reading this. I just wish I knew you were. Please leave a comment. Even if you don't like it. I'll be excited. Honestly my response will be 'YOU READ MY STUFF!!!!!!' :D


Human Again 'Part B'

Their smell was getting stronger and I could hear their footsteps. My hand muffled her scream, but they still heard it. I decided to turn the lights on and look at her. I could see the reflection of my illuminated eyes on her face. “You’re being hunted. Stay here.” I shoved her behind a brick column making sure the wall was at her back.

I ventured out from under the eaves into plain sight looking up towards the windowsills I knew they were crouching on. “I can see you. You can’t have her!”

“Why Phineas, you just met her.” A sly voice cooed from in front of me.

“Riata?”

“I’ve looked all over for you. Yet here, hiding a human, a marked human, is where I find you. I never got to finish with you.” Her silvery voice didn’t fool me. She was pure evil, I knew my maker. She walked into view and stood there with a smirk on her face, her red ankle length coat dripping from the rain. “You smell dry. How long’s it been since you last ate my dear?”

“Never.” I made sure my voice was cold.

Shock crossed her face, “How are you still alive?”

“I’m not. Thanks to you.”

“No, really? How have you survived?”

“Like I said, I’m already dead.”

“Most reluctant vampires die within twenty four hours of transition if they don’t drink from their maker right away. How did you survive if you’ve never fed?”

“We don’t die; we slip into a coma and wake up later on.”

“How much later on?”

Her curiosity was really beginning to bug me. The others with her had stopped their advance; they seemed to be waiting for her. The poor girl’s breathing had slowed; she must have been listening. “Can we stop this inquiry? I’d really like it if you left.”

“Why? You have no claim on her.”

I knew I didn’t have a claim on the human, but I didn’t want her to die like that, it didn’t matter which way, whether they fed on her or if they changed her, it was no way to die. I knew. “Fine, it was thirty years after you changed me that I woke up.”